Skerry's College

About Skerry's College

According to Wikipedia, Skerry's College was a series of colleges which primarily prepared candidates for Civil Service examinations across the UK and Ireland. History 1878-1885 Skerry’s College was inaugurated as a small training centre in Edinburgh in 1878 by George Skerry, a civil servant in Edinburgh who saw the need to prepare candidates for the new Civil Service examinations, resulting from the findings of the Royal Commission 1875, whereby entry to the Civil Service, Post Office or Custom and Excise, was to be by competitive examinations. It was the first college in the country to provide Civil Service training for young men seeking to enter H. M. Civil Service, and was an immediate success. It catered for training for Post Office positions, Customs-Excise Officerships and other Government posts.